Re: Atheists taking this year´s war on Christmas to an entire new level

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Originally Posted by Coldstar

The evidence of FAITH and of the inner Spirit is something you reject.

I reject it because it isn't evidence. It's postulation without proof.

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Originally Posted by Coldstar

That kind of evidence is invisible to those who exhibit excessive material rationality. It is something that only Christians can experience. I don't expect you to understand.

Rationality is what separates us from bone-through-nose witchdoctors. And plenty of people other than christians experience faith. Muslims who cut themselves on the head with swords during religious fervor experience it. Schizophrenics experience it: they have no evidence that their radiators are talking to them but they are quite convinced of it nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by Hektor

But, atheism isn't a religion... right?

Atheism is a religion the way not liking baseball is participation in a sport.

All atheism is, is a requirement for evidence of bizarre claims. In the case of religion, the claims are the most bizarre ever made, yet no single solitary SHRED of evidence has ever been brought to the table. Not once. Not once by the most rabidly devout.

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Re: Atheists taking this year´s war on Christmas to an entire new level

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Originally Posted by volkistkrieg

I reject it because it isn't evidence. It's postulation without proof.

Rationality is what separates us from bone-through-nose witchdoctors. And plenty of people other than christians experience faith. Muslims who cut themselves on the head with swords during religious fervor experience it. Schizophrenics experience it: they have no evidence that their radiators are talking to them but they are quite convinced of it nonetheless.

I am a Christian and yet I am a rational thinker when it comes to decision making. Through my rational conclusions I have saved the lives of three people in two different incidences. No witchdoctors were involved and no cutting with swords. I am German. Germans are perhaps the most rational people in existence. Yet, much of Germany was Christian. Radiators were not talking to them, rather they invented them and much, much more.

There is such a thing as an ideal balance between Spirit and the material. Once again, I do not expect that an excessive materialist is able to comprehend that.

Re: Atheists taking this year´s war on Christmas to an entire new level

There may actually be a secular sort of Newslink discussion to be had here, but alas, as so many threads with "Pope", "Atheists", "Christian Minister", etc. in the title, it devolves into nothing more than a partisan Theological debate.